Everton 3-0 Sunderland: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 28 December 2008

Result

Everton 3-0 Sunderland

Premier League · Sunday 28 December 2008, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Everton · Sunderland · Premier League predictions

Everton 3-0 Sunderland: match report

Everton beat Sunderland 3-0 in the Premier League on Sunday 28 December 2008. The half-time score was 2-0.

Mikel Arteta opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Everton's goals came from Mikel Arteta (10'), Mikel Arteta (27') and Dan Gosling (83'). Sunderland did not score.

Discipline: Everton received 1 yellow card; Sunderland received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Everton were 6th on 29 points from 19 and Sunderland 13th on 22 points from 19. Everton went on to finish that season 5th with 63 points, and Sunderland 16th with 36.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Everton wins, 2 draws and 2 for Sunderland.

Going into the match Everton's last five read W-D-W-L-W and Sunderland's D-W-W-L-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Goal · Mikel ArtetaEverton · 1-0
  • 26'Yellow card · Steed MalbranqueSunderland
  • 27'Goal · Mikel ArtetaEverton · 2-0
  • 54'Yellow card · Phil BardsleySunderland
  • 67'Yellow card · Phil JagielkaEverton
  • 72'Yellow card · Teemu TainioSunderland
  • 73'Yellow card · Dean WhiteheadSunderland
  • 83'Goal · Dan GoslingEverton · 3-0

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Everton 6, draws 2, Sunderland 2.

Team news

Everton expected line-up

Tim Howard, Joseph Yobo, Joleon Lescott, Leon Osman, James Beattie, James McFadden, Andy Johnson, Nuno Valente, Alan Stubbs, Lee Kevin Carsley

Sunderland line-up (4-4-2)

Marton Fulop, Phil Bardsley, Nyron Nosworthy, Kieran Richardson, Danny Collins, Dean Whitehead, Steed Malbranque, Djibril Cissé, Daryl Murphy, Kenwyne Jones, Teemu Tainio